Comments on: Web page file size has increased by 25% in one yearhttps://boagworld.com/dev/web-page-file-size-has-become-25-in-one-year/
Advice on web design and digital strategy from Paul BoagTue, 03 Mar 2015 17:32:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: Anonymoushttps://boagworld.com/dev/web-page-file-size-has-become-25-in-one-year/#comment-9294
Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:10:00 +0000https://boagworld.com/?p=6911#comment-9294I haven’t got as far as lazy loading. I have just done some basic minifying, sprites etc. The one thing I have done which is a little more unusual is use a service called Cloudflare. You should check it out. It provides some CDN services that have really helped.
]]>By: Paul Boaghttps://boagworld.com/dev/web-page-file-size-has-become-25-in-one-year/#comment-9295
Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:10:00 +0000https://boagworld.com/?p=6911#comment-9295I haven’t got as far as lazy loading. I have just done some basic minifying, sprites etc. The one thing I have done which is a little more unusual is use a service called Cloudflare. You should check it out. It provides some CDN services that have really helped.
]]>By: Neil Sweeneyhttps://boagworld.com/dev/web-page-file-size-has-become-25-in-one-year/#comment-9293
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:40:00 +0000https://boagworld.com/?p=6911#comment-9293I’m not surprised at the increase with CSS as more people use CSS3, we do need to include those annoying prefixes that add the majority of bulk I think. Though JS isn’t too surprising with more web apps appear as apposed to web sites, but the increase in image file sizes is odd, though this could be the increase request in higher quality images.

The real surprise me; why has Flash gone up?

]]>By: Mike Hopleyhttps://boagworld.com/dev/web-page-file-size-has-become-25-in-one-year/#comment-9292
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:59:00 +0000https://boagworld.com/?p=6911#comment-9292If / when you do that, I’d be interested in the write-up. I never quite wrapped my head around lazy-loading / conditional loading. In particular, what happens if people click on something before the required javascript has been loaded? How do you design an interface that “makes sense” with lazy-loaded scripts?
]]>By: Anonymoushttps://boagworld.com/dev/web-page-file-size-has-become-25-in-one-year/#comment-9291
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:20:00 +0000https://boagworld.com/?p=6911#comment-9291Yeah, I know, I know. Its on my list of things to do.
]]>By: Mike Hopleyhttps://boagworld.com/dev/web-page-file-size-has-become-25-in-one-year/#comment-9290
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:15:00 +0000https://boagworld.com/?p=6911#comment-9290“I would like to wag my finger in disgust, but to be honest I am pretty
sure the new boagworld site probably reflects this change.”

The biggest part of that is javascript: this page loads 26 javascript files, totalling 321 kB (more than double the average). The bulk of this javascript comes from third-party services such as Facebook Connect and Disqus.

Third-party javascript is difficult to improve, because it’s not under your control: you can’t rewrite Facebook Connect’s JS to make it smaller! You could potentially lazy-load it so that the initial page load is faster, but that can get complicated.

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Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:31:00 +0000https://boagworld.com/?p=6911#comment-9289Looking at the numbers the main culprit is image size. Probably due to higher resolution images?
]]>By: Gordon McLachlanhttps://boagworld.com/dev/web-page-file-size-has-become-25-in-one-year/#comment-9288
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:59:00 +0000https://boagworld.com/?p=6911#comment-9288I think an increase in web page size is inevitable, especially as people expect more interactive content, all quite contrary to Google’s position on page load time. Of course, I guess it just means that mechanics like CDNs are going to become more and more important.
]]>By: Clive Walkdenhttps://boagworld.com/dev/web-page-file-size-has-become-25-in-one-year/#comment-9287
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:55:00 +0000https://boagworld.com/?p=6911#comment-9287I was looking at this report from Pingdom last week. I know that personally my use of jQuery has increased loads in the past 12 months.
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